2010 Speaker List

Richard Whitehead

Richard is responsible for long-term cross portfolio product strategy within the Ionix/SSG software group. Previously he consulted for companies on network management product strategy. Prior to that, Richard was CTO for Clarus Systems, a privately held Unified Communications company. Richard spent over 8 years at Micromuse, Inc (now IBM), where he was Vice President of Strategic Technologies. He also serves as an advisor to a number of Silicon Valley start-ups.

Sessions

Virtualization management is the key to successfully moving beyond basic server consolidation to an agile virtual infrastructure to a private cloud. A well managed virtual environment must include performance and capacity management, automation of virtual operations, troubleshooting and root cause analysis through the virtual and physical infrastructure, lifecycle management, and more. Learn how layering the right management capabilities onto your virtual environment will improve your IT operations and build the foundation for a private cloud.